GPS (Great Problem Solving) Thinking

Creative problem-solving is a passion of mine, and I really enjoy learning, reading, and listening to this subject. Yesterday I listened to one of my favorite podcasts -"How to Be Awesome at Your Job". Pete Mockaitis spoke with Susan Robertson about GPS (Great Problem Solving) Thinking - an interesting way to use Creative Thinking to solve problems. Sharing here some interesting highlights:

1. Increase your creative thinking by making a concise separation between divergent thinking (looking for new ideas) and convergent thinking (evaluating Ideas, choosing the most suitable ideas and optimizing them. - Come up with many ideas with no judgment and then switch to convergent thinking, where you will develop more ideas and better quality.

2. How to help people come up with new ideas with GPS thinking. The “get fired idea”, is an idea that will solve the problem, but if you'll actually do it, you’ll get fired. And then go through a process of extracting something interesting from the idea and therefore the problematic part.

A. "Great" - List everything about the idea that is potentially great (divergent list of ideas).

B. "Problem" - Article the problems in the idea in the form of “How to“ questions.

C. "Solving" - You solve all those problems by modifying the idea but keeping what you thought is great.

3. Taking a crazy idea and then working it to extract the interesting parts and let the bad parts fall away, is precisely what you want to happen when using creative thinking.

Link to the podcast

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